Evaluation of the Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project
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Category : Gang prevention
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Category : Gang prevention
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Gang members
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Page : 27 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Gang prevention
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Author : Irving A. Spergel
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759113890
In this book, Irving Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He offers an in-depth description of the Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project, revealing the successes and failures of intervention at each level: individual youths, the gang itself, and the community at large. Spergel relates how a coalition of criminal justice, neighborhood, and academic organizations_along with a team of tactical officers, probation officers, former gang leaders, and a neighborhood organization_developed strategies for dealing with hardcore violent male youths from two gangs: the Latin Kings and Two Six. This well-known project has become the model for a series of national initiatives. Policymakers, criminologists, and gang researchers will find this model valuable for assessing gang programs and reducing gang violence.
Author : Kwai Ming Wa
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Gangs
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Author : Irving A. Spergel
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780759109995
Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He shows the successes and failures at each level: individual-youth, gang-as-unit, community, and policy development. This is a valuable model and methodology for a comprehensive approach to gang prevention and intervention which will be an important reference for policy makers, criminologists, gang researchers and community developers.
Author : California Youth Authority
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Gang prevention
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Author : Robert Vargas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190245913
Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago's Little Village, Wounded City demonstrates how competition for political power and state resources undermined efforts to reduce gang violence. Robert Vargas argues that the state, through different patterns of governance, can contribute to distrust and division among community members.
Author : Robert Chaskin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231519311
Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance of integrating such approaches at the local level. In this volume, leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based, youth gang interventions. Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action, these essays reorient our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them. They emphasize the importance of community, both as a context that shapes opportunity and as a resource that promotes positive youth engagement. Covering key themes and debates, this book explores the role of social capital and collective efficacy in informing youth gang intervention and evaluation, the importance of focusing on youth development within the context of community opportunities and pressures, and the possibilities of better linking research, policy, and practice when responding to youth gangs, among other critical issues.
Author : Wesley G. Skogan
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
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ISBN : 9781296046415
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